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Spring 2002

Features

Nurses to the homeless :: Gypsy's camp is evidence of the harsh living conditions faced by a growing number of homeless in Spokane. It also doubles as a classroom, and a lesson in reality, for student nurses. By Andrea Vogt.

A campus full of wonders :: All over campus, curiosities emerged from closets to form one of the most popular and unusual shows ever to fill the art museum. By Tim Steury.

What don't we know? :: James Krueger wants to know why the average person will spend 219,000 hours asleep. By James Krueger and Tim Steury.

Memories are made of this :: Neuroscientists Jay Wright and Joe Harding can approximate Alzheimer's symptoms in a rat by injecting a certain protein into its hippocampus. What's more, they can reverse those symptoms. By Tim Steury.

Fiction

The Peking Cowboy :: He wanted to tell the story in the third person, but it came out in the first; he wanted to tell it in the past, but it came out happening in the now; even if he wanted to, he could not change a word of it, its sequence and language clarifying its own shape and direction in his voice. A short story by Alex Kuo.

Maloney honored for contributions to wood materials engineering

Growing up in the mill town of Raymond, Washington, alumnus
Thomas M. Maloney may have been destined to wind up in the wood
products industry. In fact, he spent his entire professional career
at Washington State University working with wood.

Now professor emeritus, Maloney was director of the Wood
Materials Engineering Laboratory in the College of Engineering and
Architecture from 1972 until 1996. Last summer, he received the
Distinguished Service Award from the International Society of Wood
Science and Technology for his “extraordinary career contributions
to the wood science and technology profession.”

Earning a degree in industrial arts at Washington State in 1956,
Maloney led research and development in wood composites for four
decades and strengthened the laboratory's international programs.
He expanded the lab’s research focus from products that increase
efficient use of forest materials, such as particleboard and other
wood composite materials, to adhesives, adhesion, and wood
engineering.

In 1967, he founded the International WSU
Particleboard/Composite Materials Symposium. Each spring the
symposium attracts as many as 500 people to Pullman from some 30
countries. He also oversaw construction of new laboratory
facilities, completed in 1988.

The Pullman resident is a former president of the International
Academy of Wood Scientists. He has been honored with the Forest
Industries annual award (1988) and WSU's Faculty Excellence Award
for Public Service (1983) and Alumni Achievement Award (1999). He
is the author of Modern Particleboard and Dry-Process Fiberboard
Manufacturing, which is used throughout the world.